BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Yesterday's primary defeat of career
anti-gunner Richard Aborn in his race to become Manhattan's
District Attorney shows that even residents of a city with some of the
strictest gun laws in the nation reject the gun control philosophy
espoused by Aborn and those who supported him, the Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said Wednesday.

Aborn, a former president of Handgun Control Inc. - now known as
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence - ran primarily on his gun
control record. He collected only 26 percent of the vote.

"Keeping guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens may
appeal to demagogues like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan
Gottlieb, "but it doesn't play well with average citizens who
are tired of being victimized, not only by criminals, but by the very
laws that people of Aborn's ilk have forced on them.

"Richard Aborn had the endorsement of the Brady Campaign,
Million Mom March, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and other
anti-gun-rights organizations," he added. "We hope that his
rejection sends a message to other gun control extremists that voters
have had enough rhetoric and are fed up with restrictions on their gun
rights."

Gottlieb said Aborn's last-place finish in the three-way race,
which was won by attorney Cy Vance, is a repudiation of the gun
prohibitionist philosophy he has represented over the past 17 years.

"Aborn's defeat should be a signal to other politicians
that an endorsement from the Brady Campaign or any other anti-gun group
is a political kiss of death," Gottlieb observed. "This defeat
shows that there is no room in politics, especially in a
prosecutor's office, for anyone harboring the kind of extremist
opinions about gun rights and gun ownership that Richard Aborn has
wanted to enforce as public policy."

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org)
is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a
non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to
preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected
officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights
activists in local communities throughout the United States.

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